delicacy

He, out of delicacy, was sitting on the ground behind the house.

There would seem to me a certain delicacy in the question.

He had learned nothing of delicacy since last he'd held her.

There was a delicacy to the language of those times.

With his usual delicacy he said nothing for some time.

What she had to say must be handled with delicacy.

You will find no better example of this delicacy anywhere.

But the thing did have a certain delicacy and grace.

You will see I am a man of extreme delicacy.

He said financial issues should be discussed in public with great delicacy.

He had not grown very much and still there was an air of delicacy about him.

The fish are considered a delicacy by the people of the region.

They're a delicacy here, as they used to be in some cultures at home.

She placed them there one at a time, working with care and delicacy.

But there remains the same powerful delicacy of the line.

So what is this "delicacy" and where did we get it?

"This is a personal matter, and one of some delicacy."

How can the effect be described with delicacy and taste?

It all has to be managed with delicacy - but not too much.

It requires a delicacy of feeling which they have not.

Impossible to give an account of such a delicacy with words!

They are eaten by all groups of society as a delicacy.

His face had the porcelain delicacy of the very old.

With delicacy, she turned and stepped back, so that his hand must fall away.

The delicacy of that approach is all important, especially with those who are ill.